Indian community. There is also considerable feeling that the Indians have not received adequate consideration by the local district. We are requesting funds for the operation of a one-room unit at this place. A proportionate reduction in the item for aid to public schools is made.

Lodge Pole (Fort Belknap).—A new Federal school building has recently been completed at Lodge Pole, and funds for its operation as a two-room unit are requested for 1938. Many of these children have not previously attended school, and others have been enrolled in various nonreservation boarding schools. The Indians had previously petitioned for the establishment of a school here and through Public Works funds construction of the necessary facilities was made possible.

Savoy (Fort Belknap).-Savoy is another full-blood community. During the past year these pupils have been transported to a public school some distance away. The Indians themselves are dissatisfied with this arrangement as it necessitates the transportation of very small children a long distance during extremely severe weather. The result, of course, has been that very few of the children of this community have attended school. We are requesting funds for the operation of a one-room school. A proportionate reduction has been made in the item for aid to public schools.

Shell Creek (Fort Berthold).-Several years ago a new Federal day-school building was constructed at Shell Creek. Since that time, attendance has increased until last year the demands exceeded the available capacity. An additional room has since been added and funds are requested for the education of the additional pupils to be accommodated.

Crow Hill (Fort Totten).—During the past year the old Fort Totten Boarding School plant has been operated as a consolidated day school. Because of the urgent need for care of tubercular children it is proposed to utilize the boarding school plant as a preventorium for these children. This necessitates retention of the day-school pupils in their local communities, and funds are requested for the operation of a two-room unit at this place. A proportionate reduction is made under the item for consolidated day schools.

East Side (Fort Totten).-Justification for this school is identical with that for Crow Hill except that the minimum requirements will be for the operation of a one-room day school. A proportionate reduction is likewise made in the item for special consolidated day schools.

Oraibi (Hopi). During the past year this school has been operated as a fourroom day school, but with the construction of a new junior-senior high school building and the development of junior-senior high school facilities, justification for its operation on that basis has been submitted under the item for special consolidated day schools. A proportionate reduction in this item is therefore made. Jicarilla. The justification for this school is identical with that submitted for Oraibi. A reduction in this item of the four-room unit is made accordingly. Carizo (Mescalero).-Two years ago the boarding school at Mescalero was abolished and the pupils were placed on a day basis. Through a Public Works allotment construction of a new school building at Carizo has been made possible, but pending this construction the Indians normally living in the Carizo district have been forced to move into the agency and attend the day school at Mescalero. It is now possible for them to attend locally and funds are requested for the operation of a one-room unit in this community. A proportionate reduction under the Mescalero day school is made.

Mescalero. With the development of Junior and senior high school vocational facilities at Mescalero we have justified the establishment of this school as a special consolidated day school. A proportionate reduction in this item as a three-room day school is made.

Lukachukai (Navajo).—This school was originally established as a two-room school. Since then the attendance has increased until at the present time demand exists for a full capacity of a four-room unit. We are accordingly requesting funds for the two additional rooms.

Blackwater (Pima).-This school was originally established as a two-room unit. Since then demand for attendance at this school has increased until there is now sufficient enrollment to justify the establishment of a three-room unit. We are accordingly requesting funds for the additional room.

No. 9 Manderson (Pine Ridge). This school was originally established as a one-room unit. Since then demand for attendance at this school has increased until there is now sufficient enrollment to justify the establishment of a two-room unit. We are accordingly requesting funds for the additional room.

No. 24 (Pine Ridge).-This is merely a change in the name of the school. We are requesting the abolishment of school No. 24 and substituting a school at Wamblee. These are in identical locations.

Hisle (Pine Ridge.)-We are requesting funds for the operation of a one-room unit at Hisle. This area has been thoroughly surveyed and it has been found that sufficient children are available who will attend school to warrant the operation of a one-room unit at this place. This is a typical full-blood Indian community and quite isolated. Those children who have been attending school have been enrolled at the various boarding schools but many have not been attending at all.

Wamblee (Pine Ridge).—This is merely a change in the name of this school. It will be noted above that school no. 24 has been eliminated and Wamblee substi tuted in its place.

Rocky Boys' (Rocky Boys').—For the past year this school has been operated as a two-room school, one room being carried as Federal day school and the other through the public schools. We are requesting a reduction of this one-room school at Rocky Boy's and under the item for boarding and day schools will be found a justification for its establishment as a combination boarding and day school. A proportionate reduction likewise is suggested in the item for aid to public schools. Bad Nation (Rosebud).-We are requesting funds for the operation of a oneroom school in this community. This is an isolated full-blood Indian community. The school has previously been operated by the public-school district. Attendance has been poor due largely to the inadequate program provided and the Indians have petitioned for its operation by the Federal Government. A proportionate reduction in the item for aid to public schools is made.

Grass Mountain (Rosebud).—We are requesting funds for a one-room unit at Grass Mountain. This is a new resettlement community and school facilities will have to be provided for the children there. Proportionate reductions have been suggested in the various schools listed for the Rosebud jurisdiction in the item for aid to public schools.

Greenwood (Rosebud).—This school has been operated as a three-room school during the past year. The enrollment, however, has increased until it is now essential that funds be provided for an additional schoolroom unit.

Horse Creek (Rosebud).—The justification for this school is identical with that as submitted for Grass Mountain.

White Swan (Rosebud).—The justification for this unit is identical with that submitted for Bad Nation.

Choulic (Sells).-Funds are requested for a one-room day school in this fullblood Papago Indian community. For many years the Papago Indians resisted all efforts of the Indian Service to provide school facilities for their children. During recent years, however, a demand has developed for such facilities. The Indians have not petitioned for a school at Choulic. Careful surveys have been made which indicate that there are more than enough children ready to enroll to warrant a one-room unit. These children have not heretofore been attending school.

Emika (Sells).-Justification for this item is identical to that submitted for Choulic.

Fresnal Canyon (Sells).-Justification for this item is identical to that submitted for Choulic and Emika.

Techolote (Sells).-Justification for this school is identical with that submitted for Choulic, Emika, and Fresnal Canyon.

Vamori (Sells).-Justification for this school is identical with that submitted for Choulic, Emika, Fresnal Canyon, and Techolote.

Dania (Seminole).-Through inadvertence this school was omitted from our 1937 request, although the school has been in operation for a number of years. Funds are requested for its continued operation as a one-room unit.

4. Special consolidated day schools, $592,450 (increase, $135,075).—The following tabulation explains this figure:

To show this detail by schools there follows a statement indicating the number of pupils contemplated for each of the special consolidated day schools during 1938, together with the number for the upper grades.

New schools and additional pupils.-We are asking for a net increase of 945 pupils at $125 per capita which accounts for $118,125 of the total increase. As mentioned above, with the development of an educational program particularly adapted to the reservation needs, there is an increased interest on the part of the Indian children to take advantage of these educational opportunities. Present enrollments at many of the schools already exceed the number authorized for 1937, and we are asking that funds be appropriated to take care of these increases. Included in the net increase of 945 pupils are a number of new schools as follows: Fruitland. This school is located on a new irrigation project recently completed near Farmington, N. Mex., on the Navajo Reservation. It is estimated that there will be in the neighborhood of 500 children eligible for schooling when this project is completely settled by Indians. From Public Works funds a new consolidated school is under construction. This school will care for 200 pupils. We are asking for an appropriation to care for 150 of this group at this time.

Hays. At the present time there is available an old school building and school is being conducted by the public-school authorities. Practically the entire enrollment is of one-half or more Indian blood with not over a dozen white children attending. The Indians themselves are very anxious that this be conducted as a Government school. We are convinced that this should be done and we are accordingly asking for funds for the operation of this school on the basis of 120 pupils. A proportionate decrease in the amount requested for tuition is being recommended.

Jicarilla. For years Jicarilla has been struggling along as a little three-room day school. Most of these children are being cared for in the mission dormitory and attend this day school. A number of children have been attending the public school at Jicarilla but the public-school authorities have discontinued this school and it is now necessary for us to provide for the entire group. This is the only school on the Jicarilla Reservation, and it is necessary that adequate provision be made to care for 140 children. A proportionate decrease is recommended in the tuition item and also in the day-school item.

Macy. Several years ago the Genoa Boarding School was abandoned and the Indian children were placed, largely, in the Winnebago and Macy public schools. The Federal Government has been paying tuition at both of these places for Indian children enrolled. Winnebago seems to be getting along very well but in the case of the Macy group, the local district is finding it impossible to maintain a suitable educational program for both the Indians and the whites. We propose to take over the operation of the Macy School as a Federal day school and provide the type of training that would be adapted to local needs. Several conferences have been held with the local school people and they have agreed that the Government should operate this school and permit the white children to attend upon payment of tuition. With this proposal we are in accord. Some of the buildings at this place already belong to the Federal Government. We are asking for an appropriation on the basis of 225 Indian children. The remainder of the operating expenses will be provided for by tuition payments on the part of the local school district for the white children who attend. A proportionate decrease in the tuition

item is made.

Mescalero. Several years ago the Mescalero Boarding School was abolished and the children were enrolled on a day basis. At the present time opportunities are available only for elementary training. In order for these children to receive high-school and vocational training it has been necessary for them to be sent away to some of our nonreservation boarding schools. In line with our development of educational programs built around local reservation needs, we are recom mending the establishment of a consolidated school at Mescalero which will provide high-school facilities for 45 children and elementary facilities for another 45. At present the Mescalero School is being conducted as a two-room elementary school. Proportionate reductions are made in the appropriate item of this budget. Physical facilities are available to care for this enrollment in existing buildings belonging to the former boarding school plant.

Oraibi.-For the past several years this school has been operated as a small day school. As a part of the reduction program planned several years ago for the Phoenix Boarding School, the development of junior and senior high school

facilities at Oraibi to permit these Hopi boys and girls to remain on the reservation for their vocational education has been underway. Through allotments from the Public Works appropriation a new eight-room building, with shop, home economics, and other community facilities, is being completed. A good many of these children have not attened school for the last year. We are asking for an appropriation to care for 160 pupils at this school for 1938. A proportionate decrease is being made in the day-school item.

Rocky Boy's. No high school opportunities are available on the Rocky Boy's Reservation at the present time. There is a large group of Indian boys and girls who have not had the opportunities for high school and vocational training after completing the elementary schools of the reservation. In line with our policy of developing this type of training on the reservation where the program can be adapted to the particular local needs of the reservation, we are asking for an appropriation to care for 125 children. Appropriate decreases in other items of this estimate are being recommended.

Additional pupils for vocational differential.-We are asking for an increase of 678 pupils to receive the vocational differential allowance of $25 at these schools. With the establishment of these consolidated day schools during the past few years, there has been a gradual increase in the number of children who have finished the elementary grades and who are going ahead with their junior and senior high school vocational training. This has been augmented by a steady decrease in junior and senior high school boarding-school enrollments. Part of the increase, of course, is accounted for by the new schools enumerated above. The remainder represents actual increases needed as indicated by the number of children who are enrolled in the upper grades in the various schools. This accounts for $16,950 of the increase.

Fort Totten. We have proposed the elimination of Fort Totten as one of the consolidated day schools in view of the fact that we are proposing to conduct this school as a preventorium on a boarding basis. The nonpreventorium children will be cared for in the two other day schools on the reservation and request is being made under the appropriate item for the operation of these two day schools. This permits a reduction of 175 pupils at $125 each or a total of $21,875.

5. Aid to public schools, $682,400 (decrease $67,600)—General.-During the fiscal year 1936 approximately $594,000 was expended under this appropriation for aid to public schools enrolling Indian children. The average rate per day for actual daily attendance was approximately 40 cents. Under existing regulations tuition is not paid for children of less than one-fourth Indian blood, nor where the taxable land owned by the parents or children is in excess of the nontaxable property.

It has been necessary as a protection to Indian children and as an aid to the States in the weaker districts to request, as an accompaniment to aid public schools for Indian children, that the district use Federal moneys for current operations only and maintain approved standards in teacher preparation, equipment, and other matters. In addition to the $594,000 shown to have been used for aid on a daily attendance basis, there was expended $100,963 for payment to the State of Washington under a contract. Attention is called to this figure in explanation to a large degree of the decrease in the amount used for tuition during 1935 and the decrease in the number of tuition pupils. Our justification last year eliminated children of the State of California, but still retained children of the State of Washington.

About $14,000 was used from tribal funds for tuition payments exclusive of the amount specifically authorized from Chippewa funds. As in the past, it has been necessary to provide noon-day lunches and transportation at many schools, particularly those educating children formerly in boarding schools.

Decrease.-The amount requested for 1938 shows a decrease of $67,600 from the amount of $750,000 allowed for the fiscal year 1937. A number of schools that have been operated by local public school districts in Government buildings have been returned to the Indian Service for operation as Federal day schools. Tuition has been paid by the Government for Indian children attending these schools. It is proposed to operate certain other such schools as Federal day schools where local conditions indicate unsatisfactory conditions for the Indian children. There follows a tabulation of the schools and the amount of tuition recommended for elimination from this item for 1938 for the reasons specified above:

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